Caster Semenya Quotes
To me I don't think sport is something that I can take for life. I still have my academy, my studies.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.
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We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
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I had a moment where I was like, 'I'm so tired of waiting for other people to accept me.'
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My college, Fitzwilliam, was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered 'old college' environment, which frankly was a bit intimidating. But I worked hard and settled in by exploring politics and girls.
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I was joking with someone about this the other day. They were like, 'You talk about Applebee's as if it was your ex.' I miss it; I miss setting up tables at 6 A.M.
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Unfortunately, 'chick flick' has become a term to describe most movies that I don't even like. They're these movies that, yes, have women in them but they really don't reflect who women are, and there's something kind of silly or shallow or gossipy about them.
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I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and people were an afterthought, but that's changed a bit.
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For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
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I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be able to Rollerblade hand-in-hand with somebody I had a crush on. I just wanted to get off the farm, to find my outlet.
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I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.
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I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.
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We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
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The books I like to read the most feel like they've been written by somebody who had to write them or go crazy. They had to get them out of their heads. I like that kind of urgency.
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You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back - it's hard for us to understand what the experience of a refugee might be like.
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As an athlete, you only have so much time. The window only has so much time and then it closes. You have to take care of yourself the best you can.
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I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!
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My father is from Bosnia, and my mother is from Croatia, but I was born in Sweden.
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Being God would be the ultimate.
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Someone who is a good person should have no fear of the government whatsoever.
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There is a very beautiful expression in the Hebrew language that's borrowed from spoken Torah... 'All is predicted, and permission is given at any point to change anything.' I think I live by this idiom in the sense that there is always a goal; there is always something to look forward to in life and my creative search, and that goal is there.
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Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal.
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No one argues with the many benefits of breastfeeding for those women who choose it.
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To me I don't think sport is something that I can take for life. I still have my academy, my studies.
